Thanks for the responses, Brad. Is there some documentation somewhere for which modules are loaded by default and which ones aren't (e.g. mediawiki.api)?
-- Jason Ji [email protected] On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 10:22 AM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) < [email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 7:28 PM, Jason Ji <[email protected]> wrote: > >> So it's strange, about ten or fifteen minutes after I posted that, the >> error went away while I was fiddling with something or other. One of those >> really strange (and terrible) magically disappearing bugs... so the >> following is no longer urgent, but more for my own edification. >> > > Ah, caching issues! If I recall correctly, debug=true bypasses some > internal ResourceLoader caching. debug=false tries to check file mtimes and > such to avoid serving stale caches, but sometimes it gets confused. > > For my own local development, I sometimes use a shell script that clears > memcached and redis and runs the clearMessageBlobs.php script from the > WikimediaMaintenance extension. You probably wouldn't want to do all that > on a production server, though. > > >> You're right that I never load mediawiki.api. (However, I'm still not >> loading it and the problem has resolved itself.) But why would I need to >> load mediawiki.api, and not other mediawiki JS modules? I've been able to >> use other mw modules in JavaScript without any issues (example: mw.user for >> getting tokens, or mw.config to get various $wg variables). >> > > Some stuff is loaded by default, but I don't think mediawiki.api is part > of that. For something as commonly used as mediawiki.api, though, you might > be getting lucky in that something else on the page might be loading it for > you. > > > -- > Brad Jorsch (Anomie) > Software Engineer > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > Mediawiki-api mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api > >
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